Opened Practices Users from New York

Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, NYU

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Lucy Appert is the Director of Educational Technology in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University and the co-chair of NYU's Sakai/ATLAS Working Group, a joint faculty and IT task force formed to develop Sakai OAE at NYU (see the project blog here: http://chartingatlas.blogspot.com/). She is also the organizer of the User Reference Group (URG) for the Sakai OAE Community Project. Within NYU and the larger academic community, she has worked to raise faculty awareness of and support for the new direction in academic technology represented by Sakai OAE.

Dr. Appert holds a PhD in 17th & 18th c. British literature and has 19 years of teaching experience, 10 of them at NYU. She was the recipient, with Liberal Studies Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Bob Squillace, of a 2008 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to build the Simonides electronic portfolio tool for Sakai (read the resulting white paper here: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=67). Since 2006, she has worked to find creative instructional technology solutions for Liberal Studies' more than 2000 students and 130 faculty members in New York, London, Paris, Florence, and Shanghai.